Author names enclosed in quotes will return only exact matches. For example, "Stephen Hawking" will not return matches for Stephen W. Hawking.

Diacritic character variants are automatically searched in the Author(s) field.

Queries with no punctuation will treat each term independently.

Tips

Wildcards:

Use ? to replace a single character or * to replace any number of characters.

Can be used in any field, but not in the first character position. See Journal References tips for exceptions.

Expressions:

TeX expressions can be searched, enclosed in single $ characters.

Phrases:

Enclose phrases in double quotes for exact matches in title, abstract, and comments.

Dates:

Sorting by announcement date will use the year and month the original version (v1) of the paper was announced.

Sorting by submission date will use the year, month and day the latest version of the paper was submitted.

Journal References:

If a journal reference search contains a wildcard, matches will be made using wildcard matching as expected. For example, math* will match math, maths, mathematics.

If a journal reference search does not contain a wildcard, only exact phrases entered will be matched. For example, math would match math or math and science but not maths or mathematics.

All journal reference searches that do not contain a wildcard are literal searches: a search for Physica A will match all papers with journal references containing Physica A, but a search for Physica A, 245 (1997) 181 will only return the paper with journal reference Physica A, 245 (1997) 181.